"Complicity with Evil"
"Complicity with Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide Adam LeBor,
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300126085
DDC: 327
Edition: Paperback; 2008-03-28
Summary:
From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to
those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to
confront genocide. This is evinced, author and journalist Adam LeBor
maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most
senior UN official in the field during the Yugoslav wars, in which he
refused to authorize air strikes against the Serbs for fear they
would “weaken” Milosevic. More recently, in 2003, urgent reports from
UN officials in the Sudan detailing atrocities from Darfur were
ignored for a year because they were politically inconvenient.This
book is the first to examine in detail the crucial role of the
Secretariat, its relationship with the Security Council, and the
failure of UN officials themselves to confront genocide. LeBor argues
the UN must return to its founding principles, take a moral stand and
set the agenda of the Security Council instead of merely following
the lead of the great powers. LeBor draws on dozens of firsthand
interviews with UN officials, current and former, and such
international diplomats as Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke,
Douglas Hurd, and David Owen. This book will set the terms for
discussion when UN Secretary General Kofi Annan steps down to make
room for a new head of the world body, and political observers assess
Annan’s legacy and look to the future of the world organization.
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